March 25, 1947 is the day 111 coal miners were killed during their routine daily duties at the Centralia Coal Mine. There was a massive explosion that changed the city of Centralia forever. The cause of the massive explosion was due to a buildup of coal dust. The explosion was one hundred percent preventable if the necessary actions were taken in to affect beforehand. The conditions of the coal mine was deadly.
Crisis Management: An Analysis of the 1947 Texas City Explosion Kevin K. Rice Columbia Southern University Abstract Texas City became the site of the worst industrial catastrophe in United States history when two merchant ships, the SS Grandcamp and SS High Flyer, carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer exploded on the 16 and 17 April 1947. The Texas City disaster remains the worst industrial accident in US history. This disaster occurred prior to the realization that government entities needed to have emergency management plans. Since this major accident, major improvements have been made in emergency management ;however, the possibility of a disaster is always relative to the seriousness of the threat. This paper is a recounting of the events surrounding the accident, both before, during, and after.
Residents went to emergency shelters because of the radiation. Equipment failure, human error, and bad luck would conspire to create America’s worst nuclear accident. The impact of Three Mile Island was terrible, there was a massive cleanup. The cleanup started in August of 1979 and officially ended in December of 1993. The cleanup cost about 975 million dollars.
Even though nuclear power plants have beyond multiple back-up system’s there is still a possibility of a plant malfunctioning and experiencing a full meltdown. There have been a total of eight partial melt downs in America alone, Three Mile Island being the worst. America’s structure rules for containment buildings around core reactors are more strict than Ukraine’s Chernobyl power plant. The Chernobyl meltdown caused up to four thousand deaths in the years after the environment was flooded with radiation. Childhood thyroid cancer and birth deformities are of the most common problems due to the high levels of radiation (What is Nuclear Energy).
Simensen bases his statement on an experiment previously done by an American aluminum factory. That experiment is the second reason why Simensen’s theory is the best explanation. ”The explosion destroyed the whole laboratory and hit a crater with an average of 30 meters” (Spits, 22-09-2011). In that experiment, they let 20 liters of water get into contact with melted aluminum. An explosion evolved after the water came into contact
An Analysis of Logistical Alternatives for Centralia No. 5 Dr. Timothy Smith PAD 500 28 October 2012 An Analysis of Logistical Alternatives for Centralia No. 5 As the end of the shift approaches for the miners in Centralia Coal Co’s Mine No. 5, coal dust exploded deep inside killing 111 men. This explosion forced public officials on the state and federal levels to revise how protocols are implemented.
Nuclear waste was such a problem for Chelyabinsk because of the three nuclear disasters that took place there at the Mayak complex. The man disaster was the third that took place in 1967. The disaster occurred because people were dumping nuclear waste into Lake Karachay, not realizing the potential consequences. In 1967, a cyclone went over the lake causing the water filled with nuclear waste to spread everywhere. But with all the problems that face Chelyabinsk, the people still dump liquid radioactive waste into the lake every year.
Why did the Titanic sink? On 14th April 1912, RMS Titanic set sail on her maiden voyage. Being the largest ship afloat, the ‘unsinkable’ titanic was struck a deadly iceberg, resulting to 1,517 deaths, and a legend torn apart. But many ask, why did the titanic sink. A simple question with a mysterious answer behind it.
Without a warning hundreds of thousands of Hiroshima residents were instantly killed by an atomic bomb the size of a small home, devouring the entire city. Being the first nuclear weapon in history, President Truman claimed the results were not intended to be so powerful and destructive as they proved to be. Truman believed that by dropping the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the war would end. Although it did just that, there were many other peaceful ways of resolving this war. Both countries wanted the
At 8:15am on August 6, 1945, approximately 300 to 500 feet above the highly populated city of Hiroshima Japan, the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare was detonated. Only minutes later 60,000 to 100,000 people were dead, most were vaporized leaving only an eerie shadow of carbon behind. In the year and months that followed hundreds of thousands of people died of radiation poisoning and radiation provoked disease. Children born in months immediately following the bombing were occasionally born without vital organs or limbs. Was the decision to drop this historical bomb a correct one?